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The problem is choice.
The Artist Formerly Known as Nerd42 Started conversation Dec 14, 2005
I have come to a crossroads in my career as an h2g2 Researcher.
In the past, I used to run a virtual radio talk show here on h2g2. [ A1324252 ] When I had to leave h2g2 for a while, it shut down. I haven't re-opened it because I fear that in the future I may not have the nessicary time to attend to it and constantly provide rebuttals and read backlog and do research and all the things associated with being the only person defending an unpopular point of view in an online debate. Constantly.
Furthermore, I have other h2g2 responsibilities that I have already committed to. My "Silver Sword" fantasy RPG [ A989698 ] is prospering right now and if I were suddenly to have an influx of new players AND new callers on the talk show at the same time, I'm not sure that I'd be able to handle everything and still get good grades in college in the coming semester.
Furthermore, I'd probably have to come up with ways to promote the possible "Grand Reopening" of my talk show and find out whether anywhere in the godforsaken wasteland of h2g2 Radio there is still a station on the air. Both of the "42FM" station managers have either disappeared or been ignoring the radio stations.
My talk show, sometimes called the "42FM Debate Channel" though it was really just me (the Right Wing) debating with everybody else (the Left Wing) was THE happeningest thing on the air at 42FM or else I am greatly mistaken. My talk show was still going for quite awhile even after the rest of the station was not.
So, if I were to start doing this again, I'd want to not only restart my virtual talk show, but start a brand new virtual station to play it on, which would invite other people to get their own shows as well. (playing music, doing news, talking about sports, relationships, or whatever) That way as long as I'm there to run my show I'd know the station was also being attended to. And I would require that the other shows actually *happen* with actual *people* there or else they wouldn't get on the air.
So ... if I was going to do this ... will I have time?
Shouldn't my RPG, that I've already committed to, come first? Probably.
Up to now I've only been getting into short little discussions. But talking to people on some "do atheists goto hell?" thread has got me to thinking that maybe it's time to take up the microphone again.
I haven't decided yet but I will have to soon. To Debate or Not To Debate, that is the question. 
Nerd42
The problem is choice.
The Artist Formerly Known as Nerd42 Posted Dec 14, 2005
if a thread ever goes off-topic like the "atheists goto hell?" thread did, I can say:
"This thread is getting too far off of it's original topic. So, let's discuss the issues that have been brought up on my talk show instead so that the people who started this thread can get back to what they were talking about."
It was great fun when the thing was running. Nerd42
The problem is choice.
The Artist Formerly Known as Nerd42 Posted Dec 27, 2005
The way it sometimes went is I would get to dreading checking h²g² messages for fear I'd screwed up and said something unbelievably stupid (I'd once called "people like Jesse Jackson" (quoting myself, years ago) "black supremacists" - now having learned more about politics, I realize they're motivated completely by politics without any reguard to race at all - they'll even go so far as to attack the blackness of black conservatives.) and would have to admit to everyone that I screwed up. This would inevitably and predictably fail to happen. I'd write a reasonably good rebuttal post and leave feeling much better about myself and my positions afterwards. That was how it always went when I logged into h2g2 whilest the show was running.
What I really dreaded I think was wading through all the backlog. Some people just can't quit typing and
The problem is choice.
The Artist Formerly Known as Nerd42 Posted May 4, 2006
...so I just quit typing in that last post, for those of you who didn't get the joke. My conclusion on this was, by the way, that I am not goint to do it right now. However, I have moved the "Wall of Flame" display to my Personal Space, in order for it to have some actual content. I can refer people to it if they want to know what crazy stuff other people have said about me. Nerd42
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